Throughout the movie Radio is depicted as several of the stereotypical view of a person with a
Radio got his name from the players and coach at the local high school (Hanna), because he always carried his radio with him. Radio carried his radio because he enjoyed music. He used to push a grocery cart around the city picking up whatever he could to put in it. The football Coach Harold Jones played by “Ed Harris” saw that Radio had been hanging around the school
Jaylen Poe Mr. Shedlock ELA 8 January 24, 2023 How Radios Affected Society The invention of the radio brought life and entertainment to all of America. It was invented to send transmitters over long distances. Broadcasters send messages using radio waves instead of wires. It began broadcasting commercials after being able to transmit sound.
The 1930’s was a time of rebirth for America. It was a start of a whole new era of art, music, technology, and so much more. American’s had a remarkable fresh sense of pride because of the modern innovations that changed the way of life for them. One of the most influential creation of the time was the radio. The invention of the radio was not only an outstanding innovation that impacted the 1930’s, but it also helped inspire the way we use technology 85 years later.
When KDKA transmitted the first commercial radio broadcast on November 2, 1920, that sound could travel through the air to a location many miles away must have seemed amazing for all Americans in the era. Unfortunately, few people heard the broadcast because there were not many radios during the late 1910s because it was not well known. There was about one thousand radios in 1920 and it cost about hundred and fifty dollars (1920’s Radio). Regardless, the novelty of the radio caught the public’s imagination and soon, manufacturers could not keep up with the demand for radio receivers.
Question 1.) In 1927, the newly formed Federal Radio Commission (precursor to the modern FCC) instituted the Radio Act. Looking back over the course of the evolution of radio, what were the positive and negative consequences of the Radio Act? Are similar issues facing developing media technologies today? Answer 1.)
In the movie, the message of the escape of the three convicts is spread through the radio and information on the development of the highly popularized election for governor is also shared in an attempt to alter the political beliefs of potential voters. PBS documents the prime time of the radio, stating, “For the radio, the 1930s was a golden age. At the start of the decade 12 million American households owned a radio, and by 1939 this total had exploded to more than 28 million” (PBS). Popular events and news were publicly shared and heard by thousands of people, and it was the highest form of communication in the household ever developed at the time, putting the American people in direct conversation with even the president himself. The article also suggests that “radio may have had such mass appeal because it was an excellent way of uniting communities of people, if only virtually” (PBS).
Radio and Television The music of the 1960s and 1970s definitely had an impact on culture and society in the United States. Protest music, specifically, brought ideas, as well as problems, to the attention of many Americans. Radio stations across the nation were a big part of the spread of protest music. Radio experienced a boom after World War II.
The 1920s-30s were a very influential time in the history of the United States, recognized for invention, industry, and cultural changes. All over the country, people were immersing themselves in new technologies that modernized and transformed the way they lived. From the expansion of the automobile to movie theaters, people were able to entertain themselves and have a higher quality of life. One of the most influential artifacts of this time period was the radio player. The radio grew at a tremendous rate during this era for its ability to entertain and inform people of the world around them.
In the early 1940s televisions were becoming popular in American homes. In the beginning of television there were no 'large networks' or 'must see TV' shows, mostly just presidential debates and sporting events were broadcasted. When the federal government made the studios sell their theater holdings they also blocked them from purchasing television stations as well. Television was gaining power just as the Hollywood Studio System was beginning to fall apart. This is something that would greatly effect the future of Hollywood.
In the start of the 20th century radios offered the people an immediate coverage of any news that needed to be told. Not only was radio one of the fastest ways to get news at the time, it also gave its listeners entertainment such as sports, music and comedy skits. In the early 1800’s, any news that needed to be sent often took days to reach its recipient. Later on inventions such as the telegraph and the telephone allowed messages to be delivered in faster way. In 1887 Henry hertz in the Hertzian waves which was the result of his experimentation with radio waves.
“Radio is the theatre of the mind; television is the theatre of the mindless.” This sagacious quote was said by Steven Allen about the aged electronic, the radio. The maker of this device’s name is Gugliemo Marconi; an Italian inventor born in Bologna, Italy in 1875. At only 20 years old, Marconi had created this astonishing invention by basing his learning on earlier inventors such as, James Clerk Maxwell who predicted radio waves in in the 1860’s or, Mahlon Loomis whom demonstrated “wireless telegraphy” in 1866. The radio in the early 1920’s produced a broadcast made by KDKA, however only about 1,000 people could listen to the new device’s entertainment.
Furthermore, we still use radios and go to cinemas. Even if not in the exact same way that they were used back in the 20s or the style that they were used they still are here and impact American mass culture to some extent in the present
Following the radio broadcast there was the Nineteen-fifty-three movie version. Comparing it to the nineteen-thirty-eights version, which it just being audio, the nineteen-fifty-three is much more advances, for they have visual and colored images, as well
There are very few things in existence that can impact and help shape many parts society as television is able to do. With just the press of a button, a person can gain a front row seat to different aspects of the world such as politics, news updates, entertainment, or travel, without having to leave the comfort of their living room. Information wasn’t always this easy to attain though. Television, an everyday amenity, took decades of time and research for inventors to create. America during the 1920’s had very little in means of communication when compared to today’s media.
